The Naked Aucas
Author: Rolf Blomberg
Publisher:
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
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One River
Author: Wade Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-05-11
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1439126836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history. In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality. A stunning account of adventure and discovery, betrayal and destruction, One River is a story of two generations of explorers drawn together by the transcendent knowledge of Indian peoples, the visionary realms of the shaman, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in a forest that once stood immense and inviolable.
Savages
Author: Joe Kane
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-01-04
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0307809919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSavages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos.
Auca on the Cononaco
Author: BROENNIMANN
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 3034863187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViolence
Author: Catherine Besteman
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2002-06
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0814799000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis multi-disciplinary anthology explores the topic of violence from a wide variety of perspectives. It looks at state violence, anti-state violence and criminal violence such as armed robbery.
Courageous Christians
Author: Joyce Vollmer Brown
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2000-03-13
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1575675943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost Christian parents dream of raising children who will love God with their whole being and seek to serve Christ with their very lives. However, sometimes parents feel they lack solid Christian role models for their children outside of their family. Our kids need Christian heroes. Courageous Christians, by Joyce Brown, is just the family reader we need to fill this gap! The vast array of men, women, and children profiled in this book give everyone someone with whom to identify. These personalities are from different parts of the world and different time periods. These are people who have moved mountains with their faith, had courage beyond belief, and have demonstrated selfless, sacrificial love. Courageous Christians is a book that can be used by families with children of all ages. Joyce Brown provides clear, simple, well-explained stories of various Christian heroes. With sixty daily readings, this book will provide a perfect format for family devotions. This delightful family reader will teach children and parents alike what truly makes a Christian hero.
Feminist Anthropology
Author: Ellen Lewin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-02-09
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 140515456X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeminist Anthropology surveys the history of feministanthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinatingcollection of both classic and contemporary articles, grouped tohighlight key themes from the past and present. Offers vibrant examples of feminist ethnographic work ratherthan synthetic overviews of the field. Each section is framed by a theoretical and bibliographicessay. Includes a thoughtful introduction to the volume that providescontext and discusses the intellectual “foremothers” ofthe field, including Margaret Mead, Ruth Landes, Phyllis Kaberry,and Zora Neale Hurston.
Interpretive Social Science
Author: Paul Rabinow
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780520058385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a new edition of the well-received Interpretive Social Science (California, 1979), in which Paul Rabinow and William M. Sullivan predicted the increasing use of an interpretive approach in the social sciences, one that would replace a model based on the natural sciences. In this volume, Rabinow and Sullivan provide a synthetic discussion of the new scholarship in this area and offer twelve essays, eight of them new, embodying the very best work on interpretive approaches to the study of human society. -- Publisher description.
Victims and Warriors
Author: Casey High
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-03-30
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0252097025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1956, a group of Waorani men killed five North American missionaries in Ecuador. The event cemented the Waorani's reputation as ""wild Amazonian Indians"" in the eyes of the outside world. It also added to the myth of the violent Amazon created by colonial writers and still found in academia and the state development agendas across the region. Victims and Warriors examines contemporary violence in the context of political and economic processes that transcend local events. Casey High explores how popular imagery of Amazonian violence has become part of Waorani social memory in oral histories, folklore performances, and indigenous political activism. As Amazonian forms of social memory merge with constructions of masculinity and other intercultural processes, the Waorani absorb missionaries, oil development, and logging depredations into their legacy of revenge killings and narratives of victimhood. High shows that these memories of past violence form sites of negotiation and cultural innovation, and thus violence comes to constitute a central part of Amazonian sociality, identity, and memory.
